Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] piece [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 2 | Erm the inertial measurement unit which is er a rather critical piece of equipment er in er a system of this nature initially did not perform to the the full level of requirement that that we we desire so you know , some further development had to be done on that before it would match the system . |
| 3 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
| 4 | But it was a rather confused piece of reasoning as his article began by conceding that there is strong support for the development of labour policies in the North . |
| 5 | In common parlance ‘ the Crown ’ probably signifies the monarch if , indeed , it does not refer to a rather elaborate piece of headgear on show in the Tower of London . |
| 6 | But she had also , by a fortunate piece of incompetence on the part of her soldiers , lost Calais , which cost about £25,000 per annum , and , by a remarkably firm piece of action , had dramatically increased the revenue from tonnage and poundage . |
| 7 | Your article , Facts about Phosphate by Philip Hunt , was a most informative piece of work . |
| 8 | This is a most pathetic piece of pontification , even if we appreciate that modern artists are some of the greatest censors of art ( i.e. Rauschenberg erasing de Kooning ) . |
| 9 | Another gave us his wartime petrol coupons , an early tram ticket , and – a most valuable piece of ephemera this year – some bound copies of a gorgeously-illustrated old magazine called ‘ The Graphic ’ . |
| 10 | The interesting Occasional Paper by Russell Ashmore regarding the use of Section 5(4) ( August 26 ) refers to patients remaining in psychiatric institutions , and is a most welcome piece of research work . |
| 11 | It is a most beautiful piece of cookery literature . |
| 12 | Another group , exclusively male , was gathered around what Sendei guessed was a highly advanced piece of technology . |
| 13 | There were another three Jet Skis buzzing around on that part of the river and a few water-skiers with their big-engined speedboats , all creating a fair old racket , but we could still hear William laughing ; the guy thought buying a frighteningly expensive piece of machinery and spending most of your time falling off it into the water was just the most enormous wheeze . |
| 14 | This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory . |
| 15 | However , when subjects had to decide whether the target sentence followed appropriately from the context , a sentence context should be more difficult than a word context since it presents the subject with a more complex piece of information . |
| 16 | Instead of a lobby warming against gunshots , could we not have a more useful piece of theatre legislation , making audience participation a violation of union rules ? |
| 17 | We are looking for a more realistic piece of sky . ’ |
| 18 | When someone Takes the Side of the Other they may not be developing something totally novel , in the sense that the classic experimental subject , who shows attitude-change , incorporates a totally new piece of information . |
| 19 | All around the house was a wide open piece of land ; and around that was a fence , two metres high , with no doors or openings , and too strong to pull down easily . |
| 20 | Since in connection with this American libel we did not employ Mr Quintin Hogg , I wrote him a short letter and received a courteous reply : The third occasion when we instituted proceedings was several years later , in 1971 , when Harold Wilson was back in opposition , and related to the activities of the BBC , which produced a thoroughly incompetent piece of television called Yesterday 's Men . |
| 21 | My way is to burn a hole in using a soldering iron , or by heating up a similarly shaped piece of metal on the gas oven and slowly easing it through . |
| 22 | I seem to remember they put it in mono and did a limited edition in stereo which , for those days , was a fairly advanced piece of thinking . |
| 23 | If there is to be a fairly detailed piece of note writing it very often is a fairly near or an exact copy of something that 's already gone before . |
| 24 | The German Officer appears to be seriously wounded , the clothing on his back is saturated with blood ; the size of the wound indicates a fairly large piece of shrapnel has entered his back close to the spine . |
| 25 | Big barbel though , have a distinct preference for swims that combine three factors : a fairly slack piece of water adjacent to a fast run , and especially where these two preside over a dense weedbed or some other kind of refuge such as a hole , steep ledge or sunken tree . |
| 26 | Although it was a fairly reliable piece of kit , the radar sometimes needed tweaking to get maximum signal returns . |
| 27 | No , that was a purely personal piece of business . |
| 28 | In a typically astute piece of marketing Terry Blamey and PWL saw that — with a major multi-million-pound sponsor behind them — allowing fans in free would further endear Kylie to her record buying public without also eating heavily into profits . |
| 29 | While it does n't even bear lip-service to fashion , this is a perfectly functional piece of kit if you 're looking for a bash about fleece jacket . |
| 30 | However , you could just use a perfectly plain piece of card or , alternatively , one that has some calligraphy incorporated into the design , some pretty scroll work , or anything else that appeals to you , and then seal it . |